Deanna Smith looks for the basket during the Sydney Uni Flames v Canberra Capitals WNBL Basketball game at the State Sports Centre in Homebush. Picture: ROBB COX.Source: News Limited

THERE will be WNBA stars shooting hoops in Alice Springs this November.

Women’s National Basketball League outfit West Coast Waves return to the Red Centre to play the Sydney Uni Flames in the final year of a three-year deal with the NT Government.

The 2014/15 WNBL draw was released yesterday, with the Waves to host the Flames on Saturday November 22.

The retooled Waves line-up, which boasts star imports Lindsey Moore and Cassie Harberts, along Australian centre Louella Tomlinson, will be looking for their first win at the Traeger Park Basketball Stadium, having lost all four matches to date.

It’s the fourth WNBL match played in Alice Springs and the third time the Flames will visit Central Australia.

Point guard Moore was selected in the first round of the 2013 WNBA Draft by the Minnesota Lynx and secured a WNBA championship in her first year.

A 2013 All-American for Nebraska, Moore has helped the Lynx to an 22-6 record start to sit second in the Western Conference standings.

Harberts was selected in the 2014 WNBA Draft at pick 20.

The 190cm Power Forward and 2013 World University Games gold medallist excites Waves Head Coach Kennedy Kereama with her excellent basketball smarts.

“I’m very excited to have secured Cassie to our roster this season. Cassie brings a very energetic, tough, skilled and intelligent brand of basketball to the Club.”

Tomlinson not only joins import pair Moore and Harberts, guard Sarah Graham and returning Waves players Deanna Smith, Toni Edmondson and Darcee Garbin in making up a formidable line-up ahead of the 2014/15 season.

After winning a championship with the Dandenong Rangers in her only season in the WNBL, 193cm Tomlinson has spent the past two seasons playing in Europe winning the 2013/14 Hungarian League with Pinkk Pecsi, averaging 14.6 points, 6.1 rebounds and 2.9 blocks.

The Flames too will have a bright new look with former New York Liberty and Dandenong Rangers point guard Lellani Mitchell joining the squad in the off-season, which boasts former Opals silver medallist Rohanee Cox.